Thanks for your comment.

I apologize for the delay in responding. I have been immersed in a business project, and completely focused on that.

I can’t give you exact numbers but many American Christians do think this way.

I can tell you that the 16 “Left Behind” novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins have sold 65 million copies. They are based Christian dispensationalist End Times theology.

Here are a couple of articles about the Left Behind series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind_(series)

http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2002/07/29/left_behind/index.html

I agree with you that it is all scary, and even scarier to think that American national and international policy could be influenced by such ideas. There is evidence that at least some policy decisions by some political leaders already have been based on these ideas.

My real concern is that very little of this was made public during the election campaign, partly because few members of the media know enough about dispensationalism to write substantive articles. The other reason is that Sarah Palin is a smart enough politician to know that her beliefs are not mainstream, and so she has been careful to position herself as simply a devout Christian woman, without being specific about her dispensationalist, End Time beliefs.

Did you read my earlier blog post, “John McCain Jilts The Evangelicals and Chooses Sarah Palin From The Assemblies of God”

http://kalindarosestevenson.com/main/john-mccain-evangelicals-sarah-palin-assemblies-of-god_197

As part of this article, I refer to how Assemblies of God churches have renamed themselves, and how Sarah Palin claims to attend a non-denominational church, which is in fact an Assemblies of God church.

All the best,
Kalinda Rose Stevenson

Thank you for having written this. I don’t know all that much about the U.S. though I do have some friends living there. I’m from Holland and glad I just read your article. Scary! Are there many who think like that in the U.S.? I know Bush was thinking along those lines as well. Not good. Not healthy for Americans or for the world at large. Shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the White House. But that’ll take time…and lots of articles like this.

My very best wishes.